to the covering of it, & making it sartum tectu wch is most needfull to be done before next winter, & which you of your self are vnable for to doe. And vpon the receipt of that letter I will be earnest wt him about it, before my going. I confesse I had a good mynd to have met you at Mr Halls house, the next weeke-but by reason of ye death of ye Mr of Sutton's hospital, I must needs stay & attend here, on the great body, the Governours, the next weeke, about an election of a new Mr: & other busynes of that house. Much ado here is about the man that shall be mr there→→ the prince is earnest for Mr Dalhinton-some oth great persons for a fellow that waited at Camb: on the lo: feldingsome for Dor Brook-some for others, I named Mr Lane to my lo: but al these are excepted agaynst as vncapable, some for having benefices cu cura, wch the statutes of the house prohibit & some for not being in holy orders, wch it requyres. After much discussiō, one in the world named to me Mr Harry Alvy who, if all the rest be excepted agaynst & wt effect is like inough to cary the place as a man meete, for his years, meanes, experience & retyredness-but what will be done yet I know not-the lords were yesterday to satisfy the prince, if it might be. My lo of Norwich hath had a fayre issue of his troublesStokes here made an acknowledgement of his errors, & is to doe the like at Norwch, by express comandment fro the King. The partyes that traduced Dor Anien remayne still in custody, waiting the kinges pleasure. Or chefe newes in Drury lane is, or next door neighbour (lo: Kensington) is come home from ffraunce, in fyne french fashion of attyre. His cominge is welcome, wch argues that he brings good newes, of the fayre proceeding & hopeful succeeding of the great busynes about the match, there now in hand, he returnes thither agayn very spedily. The K. there is raysing of an army of 30,000 men, but whereto unknown abroad-Count Mansfeld could not fynd the grace to kiss the King's hand there. The Soldiers from the low countryes, wch should goe hence are not yet gathered nor press'd for want of money, not yet brought in, but it is tyme they were taken vp, for here are a great many loose fellows, & soldiers expect interteynment, & for want of employment, walk idly vp & down the streets, & now & then fal to gither by the ears, & wound & kill one another, as this week hath shewed, at our neighbour play house, wth in these 2 dayes, there was a grivous fray among them, some hurt and one slayne, & another great fray in Fleet Street, yesterday-but the indigne vsage of our Countrymen, by the Hollanders, in the East J dyes often heretofore & lately refreshed wth a new act, or execution done vpon ten English men, whom they first tortured & afterwards beheaded hath given a distast of them to our English palat, yet all must be swallowed & they ayded. I know by this time you have heard how the dean of Gloc: is like to chang his title & degree, & you like to loose his company, his conge de lire is vnder seale. All our neighbours in Drury lane are as you left vs, from midday every window stood wt a fayre picture set to view in it. Our little neighbours Jack & Tom visit vs dayly & crave a farthin for to buy cheryes. We both comend our selves hartily to you & to Dor Allot & all our friends wt you. Comend me hartily to Mr Ridding telling him I do differ to write vnto him till I have some good matter to write of June 25. et sic nos deo yours VALEN: EXON Sutton's Hospital is what is now more widely known as The Charterhouse. Both Carey and Williams were Governors of the Charterhouse at this time (Haig Brown, Charterhouse past and present, p. 198). Sir Robert Dallington was elected Master, it is said through the interest of the Prince of Wales (afterwards Charles I.) of whose Council he was a member. Salut in Xro Sr I am to take my iourney towards Exeter on ffryday next (God willing) I send you this my farewell, before my going wishing you health and all contentment, & vs a ioyfull meeting agayne. if it might like you to take so farr a iourney as thither, this somer I would be right glad of your company there. And your kynd frind, albeit she cannot have your company here, herself, yet out of some hope that I may have it there, hath sent a bed thither to be in reddyness for yo", agaynst your coming. I heare, that the Colledg was honored this comencement wth noble persons, but I perceave they made no long stay there, for on the sonday following I saw some of them at court. My yong cozin makes long abode and takes that delight in the place, & those companyons of it, as that he is both willing and desirous to remain there. His father doth often wth thanks acknowledge your favour towards him whereof in all his letters he makes report to his father, mother & myself, the continuance whereof, I know it needles to desyre of you, resting well assured that of your self, you will still respect him. I have moved my lo: keeper once agayne for some more money towards the library-and after some speach passed at length his lop. answered me, that if the low roomes might be made habitable, by Michaelmas for his schollers to lodg in, he would give one hundreth pownds more, wch shuld be delivred to any, whom you would appoynt to call for it. I durst not presume to promise anything to his lop: for the finishing of the sayd roomes till I had first comended this his motion to yo", whereof you may doe well to let Mr Lane returne him some satisfaction, at his coming hither, and then he may receave the money, and cause it to be sent vnto yo". I am in some hope that I shall enioy Mr Burnells company to Exeter, now with me and both Mr Lane & he absent, yor company at home wilbe small. Dor Allot & Mr Ridding wilbe your cheife stayers, to whom I do request you to tender my harty comendations, & wishes, that I were so happy as ether to be wth them, or to enioy them wt me. The Court comes so near you, as Royston, on Saturday next, & then ye Court newes will fly over the heath to Cambridg-wch may ease me now of reporting any, and indeed if I would, yet I could not report more then the dayly venting out and shipping over of the Soldiers into the low countryes-Whose men in the East Jndyes have of late exercised much (vnheard of before) barbarous and inhuman cruelty vpon diverse of our English men, factours there residing, yet for all their indigne vsage of our men, our men must goe over to ayd them.. Also of a ffrench Ambassador lately come hither & royally enterteyned (as is sayd) his busynes being about the match VOL. XVII. Ꮓ Ꮓ for the prince, this is all, so with our kynd comendations to your self & or frends with you from vs both, I leave you to Gods keeping & rest Drury Lane, London July 14to 1624. yours ever assured This completes the series of letters with regard to the building of the Library. It is clear that Williams drove a hard bargain with the College. The Library itself is a noble gift, but the rent of the land at Raveley in Huntingdonshire was quite insufficient to support the Fellows and Scholars. The last Fellow on Bishop Williams' Foundation vacated his Fellowship in 1645, and no further election was made. The Bishop died 25 March 1650, and the Puritan Committee for the Reformation of the University allowed the College to discontinue the Fellowships. It appears from memoranda which have been preserved that up to 1645 the Foundation had received out of the general revenues £1276 more than it had contributed. (To be continued.) R. F. S. CALIPH MANSÚR. CALIPH MANSUR, so this old legend goes, At his behest, if he their strength would seek Unseen, the subtle features of his foes. Come, be the tinker, Omar, make amends; C. ON THE TRAPANESE ORIGIN OF THE ODYSSEY. T is an old saying that no one can do better for another than he can for himself; I may perhaps, therefore, best succeed in convincing the reader that the Odyssey was written at, and drawn from, Trapani-the ancient Drepanum or Drepaneon the west coast of Sicily, if I retrace the steps by which I arrived at this conclusion myself. I am aware that I shall thus repeat matter already printed elsewhere, but plead indulgence on the score that I am bringing an outline of the whole argument together for the first time. I was led to take up the Odyssey by having written the libretto and much of the music for a secular oratorio, Ulysses, on which my friend, Mr H. F. Jones, and I have been for some time engaged. Having got, some eighteen months ago, to this point, it struck me that I had better after all see what the Odyssey had actually said, and finding no readable prose translation was driven to the original, which I had not looked at for some thirty-five years. I came to it, therefore, with fresh eyes, and, the Greek being easy, had little difficulty in reading it without a dictionary; fascinated, however, as I at once was, with its amazing interest and beauty, I had an ever-present sense of a something wrong-of a something that was eluding me, of a riddle that I could not read. The more I reflected upon the words, so luminous and so transparent, the more I felt a darkness behind them that I must pierce before I could see the heart of the writer-and this was what |